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• theHarvester 3.0.6 v308 *
• Coded by Christian Martorella *
• Edge-Security Research *
• cmartorella@edge-security.com *

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What is this?

theHarvester is a very simple, yet effective tool designed to be used in the early
stages of a penetration test. Use it for open source intelligence gathering and helping
to determine a company's external threat landscape on the internet. The tool gathers
emails, names, subdomains, IPs, and URLs using multiple public data sources that include:

Passive:

• baidu: Baidu search engine

• bing: Microsoft search engine - www.bing.com

• bingapi: Microsoft search engine, through the API (Requires API key, see below.)

• censys: Censys.io search engine

• crtsh: Comodo Certificate search - www.crt.sh

• cymon: Cymon.io search engine

• dogpile: Dogpile search engine - www.dogpile.com

• duckduckgo: DuckDuckGo search engine - www.duckduckgo.com

• google: Google search engine (Optional Google dorking.) - www.google.com

• googleCSE: Google custom search engine

• google-certificates: Google Certificate Transparency report

• hunter: Hunter search engine (Requires API key, see below.) - www.hunter.io

• intelx: Intelx search engine (Requires API key, see below.) - www.intelx.io

• linkedin: Google search engine, specific search for Linkedin users

• netcraft: Netcraft Data Mining

• securityTrails: Security Trails search engine, the world's largest repository
  of historical DNS data (Requires API key, see below.) - www.securitytrails.com

• shodan: Shodan search engine, will search for ports and banners from discovered
  hosts - www.shodanhq.com

• threatcrowd: Open source threat intelligence - www.threatcrowd.org

• trello: Search trello boards (Uses Google search.)

• twitter: Twitter accounts related to a specific domain (Uses Google search.)

• vhost: Bing virtual hosts search

• virustotal: Virustotal.com domain search

• yahoo: Yahoo search engine

• all: currently a subset of all the most effective plugins

Active:

• DNS brute force: dictionary brute force enumeration
• DNS reverse lookup: reverse lookup of IP´s discovered in order to find hostnames
• DNS TDL expansion: TLD dictionary brute force enumeration

Modules that require an API key:

Add your keys to api-keys.yaml

• googleCSE: API key and CSE ID
• hunter: API key
• intelx: API key
• securityTrails: API key
• shodan: API key

Dependencies:

• Python 3.6
• python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt

Changelog in 3.0:

• Subdomain takeover checks.
• Port scanning (basic).
• Improved DNS dictionary.
• Shodan DB search fixed.
• Result storage in Sqlite.

Comments, bugs, or requests?

cmartorella@edge-security.com

Main contributors:

• Matthew Brown @NotoriousRebel
• Janos Zold @Jzold
• Lee Baird @discoverscripts
• Jay Townsend @L1ghtn1ng

Thanks:

• John Matherly - Shodan project
• Ahmed Aboul Ela - subdomain names dictionaries (big and small)

wget https://archive.org/download/github.com-laramies-theHarvester_-_2019-02-21_16-43-33/laramies-theHarvester_-_2019-02-21_16-43-33.bundle

 git clone laramies-theHarvester_-_2019-02-21_16-43-33.bundle 

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